Well... maybe they meant meters per hour. It was a very slow meteor. Or maybe it was going in the same direction as the moon and had to catch up.

My real answer is "welcome to the USA" where we buy mineral water in liters but distilled water in gallons. Then we put a few gallons of gas in our 2.4 liter car.

Personally... I blame Star Trek where the enemy can be X kilometers away and Y miles wide. All in one sentence.

Or Blakes 7 where they use spacials and miles in the same episode..

I... hm. I've never really given that much thought. As long as the units are defined, and both forms of measurement are understood, then everything all adds up correctly in the end. I can see the issue of having two systems of measure combined for those intimately familiar with one form and not the other, though.

I liken it to language around where I live. Someone can ask me a question in Spanish. I'll probably reply in English. No one really gives it any notice if both languages are understood.

TommyJReed:Pin Fiften Clob: BumpInTheNight: Sorry'yall, trying to land an orange can worth of fuel on the Mun ain't easy at all. Even Mechjeb 2.0 throws up its hands and goes "good luck!" during the final stage.

Many Kerbal skeletons litter the Mun

My mun is a graveyard of burnt green corpses forever preserved in the lack of atmosphere. By the time I safely land a crew manually, there will be enough wreckage and biomass just sitting there to build a city and fertilize the green houses for years.

I've made some successful Mun landings, including an almost successful rescue mission after the first lander tipped over. I didn't test re-entry to Kerbal with the rescue ship and learned the hard way that if you only put parachutes on the command module it tends to break off from the rest of the ship, leaving the helpless rescued Kerbals in a freefall to their death.

gameshowhost:MBooda: Except for a single very powerful radio emission aimed at Jupiter, the four-million year old black monolith has remained completely inert. Its origin and purpose are still a total mystery.

All the atheist trolls on here that don't believe in God but do believe we've been to the moon. All the ttelescopes on Earth but no photos FROM Earth of a flag, a lunar rover or footprint. I guess you want to believe. The truth is out there and will be revealed after every Apollo astronaut has died.

FTFA:(CNN) -- A meteoroid struck the surface of the moon recently, causing an explosion that was visible on Earth without the aid of a telescope, NASA reported Friday. But don't be alarmed if you didn't see it; it only lasted about a second.

FTFA:None however can match the size of the explosion they say they saw March 17. NASA says the meteoroid was about 40 kilograms and less than a meter wide, and it hit the moon's surface at 56,000 mph. It glowed like a 4th magnitude star, NASA says, thanks to an explosion equivalent to 5 tons of TNT.

So... have we scrapped the idea of a moonbase yet? I remember that they were talking about a moonbase as an intermediate step towards our eventual goal of going to Mars. Of course, since we can't even afford to pay the bills we already have, I guess that whole question is probably moot... at least, for the U.S.